WSJ:

The U.S. military has selected roughly 2,000 troops to prepare for a potential deployment to support Israel.

The troops are tasked with missions like advising and medical support, and they are from across the U.S. armed services.

They aren't intended to serve in a combat role.

No infantry have been put on prepare-to-deploy order.

#BREAKING Canada calls on its citizens in Lebanon to leave the country while they still can.

The dire situation in Gaza:

Civilians in Gaza are reduced to drinking sea water because clean water has run out.

Body bags are running out, fuel for hospital generators powering ventilators will run out in hours.

Food supply low. The bombing is intensifying.

UN Commission calls Israel's disproportionate strikes on Gaza a war crime.

This is how Palestinian forces set off on October 7 to infiltrate into southern Israel from Gaza.

IDF says it has killed the head of general intelligence of Hamas in Khan Yunis.

Question:

Are you effectively poised to declare war on Iran?

Senator Graham:

I am poised to use military force to destroy the source of funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.

Beirut, Lebanon.

Ynet:

The U.S. urged Israel not to make the first move on Lebanon (Hezbollah).

If the Israelis did that, the U.S. "would find it difficult to support an operation in Gaza that involves widespread harm to civilians and the risk of Egyptian sovereignty."

The head of Israel's Shin Bet, the country's internal security service, says his organization 'failed to provide a sufficient warning' to thwart the Hamas attack and that the 'responsibility for this falls on me'.

Reports claim that IDF once again attacked the Rafah crossing today on the border of Egypt.

Yasmin Porat, an Israeli survivor from the recent attack on Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza boundary, says Israeli forces killed their own civilians while combating Palestinian fighters.

IDF just carried out a precision strike on one of the high-rise buildings in Gaza in an apparent assassination attempt.

A plane keeps flying while Iron Dome intercepts a rocket over Tel Aviv.

While the original Israeli Telegram source reported this as Iron Dome intercepting a rocket over Tel Aviv, it looks like C-17 military transport aircraft firing flares.

#BREAKING Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan had a phone call with Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Haniyeh to discuss the latest developments in Palestine and the possibility of releasing civilians.

#BREAKING Explosions reported in Damascus, Syria.

Colombian Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva called on Israeli Ambassador Gali Dagan to apologize for his remarks against the Colombian president and leave the country.

“An important milestone in the history of world diplomacy will be the senseless arrogance of the Israeli ambassador to Colombia towards the President of the Republic Gustavo Petro. It’s a shame. At least ask for forgiveness and leave.”

The verbal battle on social networks between Petro and Dagan arose after the Colombian president came out in support of the Palestinians and accused Israel of using scorched earth tactics in the Gaza Strip.

Dagan responded by ridiculing Petro’s statements.

The Colombian president himself commented on the situation as follows:

“If it is necessary to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel, we will suspend them. We do not support genocide.”